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Mesopleur.Tj rugosely reticulated, and thickly covered with 

 long white hair. MetapleurcU reticulated irregularly at 

 the apex. Mesosteriium smooth and shining ; the sides 

 punctured ; the base with a triangular depression. Legs 

 thickly covered with white hair; the calcaria pale. Wings 

 fuscous, with a violaceous tinge; the nervures are fuscous; 

 the second and third cubital cellules at the top are equal 

 in length ; the base, especially behind the transverse basal 

 nervure, is hyaline. Abdomen rufous, the apical segment 

 black ; the segments at the apex densely clothed with 

 bright fulvous pubescence ; the base of the pygidium is 

 strongly punctured, as are also the sides ; the middle, 

 except at the base, is smooth ; the apex is broadly rufous 

 in the middle. The apex of the ventral keel is depressed; 

 the h}-popygium is broadly depressed in the middle to near 

 the base, the depression there being rounded ; the outer 

 sides of the segment are rounded ; at the base are two 

 fove^E. 



MUTILLA ILLA, Sp. nov. 



Nigra, capite thoraceque dense albopilosis ; abdoniine 

 ferrugiueo, apice nigro ; alis violaccis, basi Jtyalinis. $. 



Long. 8 mm. 



Hab. Barrackpore {Rotlnuy). 



Scape of antennae sparsely covered with gre}' hair ; 

 the flagellum densely with white down. Front densely 

 covered with silvery pubescence, which hides the sculpture; 

 the vertex closely punctured, covered with longish fuscous 

 hair. Face and clypeus smooth and shining, laterally 

 covered with long white hair. Mandibles broadly rufous 

 behind the teeth. Falpi dark testaceous. Fronotum 

 densely covered with dark silvery hair ; punctured ; pro- 

 pleurae irregularly striated, except at the apex. Mesonotum 

 strongly and deeply punctured ; covered with blackish 



